A plumber in the UK has helped over 2000 vulnerable families fix heating and plumbing during the pandemic for free

James Anderson, 53, of Burnley, a town in Lancashire, England, provided over 2,000 free emergency repair services to the disabled and the elderly during the pandemic, he told CNN.

“Since early 2020 and during the pandemic, we’ve been working seven days a week to deliver what people need,” wrote Anderson in a post on Facebook. “We have fought with you and will do so to the end. We will never leave you.”

Anderson, a plumber with over 21 years of experience, set out to protect and care for vulnerable individuals in need of urgent repair after seeing a disabled and elderly man for a repair job he didn’t need 5,500 pounds were cheated, he told CNN.

“We’re basically providing a lifeline for anyone who is older, disabled and vulnerable at any age,” said Anderson.

Anderson's non-profit organization DEPHER offers services for disabled and elderly people free of charge.With the elderly population being one of the most vulnerable populations during the pandemic, DEPHER’s work was particularly important to the community, Anderson said. The company even added PSA, a food bank, and paid electricity and gas bills for those who could no longer afford them. “I can never thank you enough James,” one customer wrote on a social media post. “You kept me out [the] Hospital and saved my life. “Much of the company’s business is funded by community donations from Go Fund Me. Around 40% of the funds come from donations and the other 60% from private jobs,” Anderson said.

“I do it because I feel good inside,” said Anderson. “To help people live much longer and help them not suffer.”

DEPHER supplied people at risk with PPE during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Anderson hopes to expand DEPHER to cities around the world in the future so that all elderly and disabled people have access to free emergency repair services in their communities. But right now there are three things that we need to focus on during and after the pandemic.

“Community, family and love. We need that now,” said Anderson. “We need them all over the world now and people have to do it.”

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